TOO BUSY? DISTRACTED
When we attempt to do too many things at once we often get rattled and accomplish even less. The story is told of young Charles Darwin in Great Lives, Great Deeds that one day he was eagerly holding one rare beetle in his right fist, another in his left and then suddenly he caught sight of a third beetle which he simply knew he must have for his collection. What to do? In a flash he put one of the beetles in his mouth for safe-keeping and reached for the third beetle with his now free hand. But the mouth-imprisoned beetle squirted acid down young Darwin’s throat — so that in a fit of coughing he lost all three beetles.
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